We are pleased to announce that applications are now open for a fully-funded PhD position in Natural Language Processing at the Laboratoire Informatique, Image et Interaction (L3i) of La Rochelle University.
🏛️ Topic:
NLP-Driven Digital Twins for the Preservation of Coastal Historical Heritage
Coastal historical buildings represent centuries of heritage but face existential threats from climate change. While physical restoration is urgent, the critical historical and technical data required for accurate reconstruction is often locked in unstructured textual formats (historical archives, architectural logs, and damage reports). Current Digital Twins are often "semantically empty" as they contain geometry but lack historical context. We lack automated methods to interpret complex, often archaic, textual descriptions and map them to digital models for accurate restoration.
This thesis aims to revolutionize heritage conservation by integrating Natural Language Processing (NLP) into the Digital Twin pipeline. The research will focus on fine-tuning LLMs to parse and structure data from historical corpora regarding building materials, past interventions, and degradation history and constructing a dynamic Knowledge Graph that links linguistic data to 3D architectural elements. The outcome will be a system that empowers engineers and historians to interact with heritage data via Natural Language, ensuring that the reconstruction of these landmarks is not just structurally sound, but historically accurate.
📌 Supervised by:
Dr. Georgeta Bordea [https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgeta-bordea-7116851a/] (La Rochelle Université [https://www.linkedin.com/company/la-rochelle-universite/]) and Prof. Ana - Cornelia BADEA [https://www.linkedin.com/in/anacorneliabadea/] (Universitatea Tehnică de Construcții București [https://www.linkedin.com/company/utcbro/]).
🔗More information:
* LRUniv website: https://www.univ-larochelle.fr/en/research-and-innovation/phd/eu-docs-for-s… [https://www.univ-larochelle.fr/en/research-and-innovation/phd/eu-docs-for-s…]
* Euraxess: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380133 [https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/380133]
* Association Bernard Gregory: https://www.abg.asso.fr/fr/recruteurOffres/show/id_offre/133799 [https://www.abg.asso.fr/fr/recruteurOffres/show/id_offre/133799]
📅 Application deadline:
𝟭𝟮 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱
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IberLEF 2026 -- Second Call for Task Proposals
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IberLEF (the Iberian Language Evaluation Forum) is a shared evaluation
campaign of Natural Language Processing systems in Spanish and other
Iberian languages, whose 2026 edition will be held as part of the 42th
International Conference of the Spanish Society for Natural Language
Processing (SEPLN). The 2026 edition of the SEPLN conference will take
place in León, Spain.
The goal of IberLEF is to encourage the research community to organize
competitive text processing, understanding and generation tasks, with the
aim of defining new research challenges and advancing the state of the art
in Natural Language Processing challenges involving at least one of the
following Iberian languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Basque or
Galician. Researchers and practitioners from all areas of Natural Language
Processing and related communities are invited to submit task proposals
that fit IberLEF goals by December 22, 2025.
Proposals must be submitted (as a pdf file) to iberlef(a)googlegroups.com,
and should include the following fields:
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Title of the task.
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Description of the task, highlighting:
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Relevance and novelty of the task, and the challenges involved.
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Evaluation measures, and other relevant methodological aspects.
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Expected target community, and actual or potential industrial takeup.
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Related evaluation activities, if any.
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Previous editions of the task, if any. If it has been organized
previously, what the roadmap is and what the novelties for 2026 are.
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Linguistic resources to be gathered, created and/or reused. Please
include as many details on data gathering, selection and annotation
procedures as possible: sources and representativity,
training/validation/test sizes, harvesting procedures, profile of
annotators (experts, linguists, crowdworkers, etc.), multiple annotation
policy, IPR issues, baselines, etc.
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Tentative schedule (note that camera-ready versions of the proceedings
must be ready by July 3, 2026).
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Organization committee: full name and affiliation of the organizers,
with a succinct description of their research interests, areas of expertise
and experience organizing similar events.
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Funding, if available.
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Contact person.
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Any other relevant issues.
Task organizers duties
Note that organizers of accepted tasks are expected to:
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Set up the evaluation exercise according to the submitted proposal.
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Promote the task within the target research community.
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Manage the submission and scientific evaluation of the system
description papers of the corresponding systems submitted by the
participants. The accepted papers will be published in
the IberLEF proceedings.
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Prepare and submit an overview of the evaluation exercise.
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Present the results of the task at IberLEF 2026.
Task selection procedure
Each submitted proposal will be reviewed by members of the IberLEF steering
and program committee, and decisions will be sent back to the task
organizers by January 23, 2026.
Proceedings
IberLEF 2026 Proceedings including the description of the participating
systems will be published at CEUR-WS.org. Task Overviews will be published
in the SEPLN journal (http://www.sepln.org/en/journal, indexed in Clarivate
ESCI (JIF: 1,22), CiteScore (Scopus): 7,3 and SJR: 0,57) in its September
2026 issue. Task Organizers are expected to notify participants the
acceptance of their works by June 19, 2026, and send the camera ready task
and system description papers for their task to IberLEF organizers by July
3, 2026.
Important dates
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Task proposals due: December 22, 2025.
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Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026.
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Final date for sending paper acceptance to task participants: June 19,
2026.
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Camera ready submissions due: July 3, 2026.
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IberLEF Workshop: September 22, 2026.
IberLEF general chairs
Alba Bonet Jover, GPLSI, Universidad de Alicante (Spain)
Luis Chiruzzo, Universidad de la República (Uruguay)
José Ángel González Barba, TransPerfect (Spain)
Website
https://sites.google.com/view/iberlef-2026
Contact
E-mail: iberlef(a)googlegroups.com
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*To be held at EACL 2026 (March 24-29 in Rabat, Morocco)*
*Workshop description*
The 8th SIGTYP Workshop aims to provide a forum for bridging linguistic
typology, multilingual NLP, and adjacent areas to develop truly
multilingual NLP methods. The workshop raises awareness of linguistic
typology and its potential to broaden the global reach of multilingual NLP
and introduces computational approaches to typology. We welcome open
problems and discussion, inviting contributions from researchers in
multilingual/cross-lingual NLP and leading scholars in linguistic typology.
In 2026, we place a special emphasis on the utility of LLMs for typological
research.
*SIGTYP is the first dedicated venue for typology-related research and its
integration in multilingual NLP. Appropriate topics include (but are not
limited to):*
- *Integration of typological features in language transfer and joint
multilingual learning. *Beyond techniques such as “selective sharing,”
what other ways can we encode heterogeneous external knowledge in ML
algorithms?
- *Development of unified taxonomy and resources. *Building universal
databases/models to support the understanding and processing of diverse
languages.
- *Automatic inference of typological features. *Pros/cons of existing
techniques (e.g., heuristics from morphosyntactic annotation, propagation
from related languages, supervised Bayesian/neural models) and emerging
approaches.
- *Typology and interpretability. *Using typological knowledge to
interpret hidden representations of multilingual models, guide multilingual
data generation/selection, and annotate texts.
- *Improvement and completion of typological databases. *Combining
linguistic expertise with data-driven methods to advance knowledge of
cross-linguistic variation and universals.
- *Linguistic diversity and universals; cross-lingual annotation. *Which
phenomena/categories should be considered universal? How should they be
annotated?
- *Using LLMs for typological studies. *Can LLMs help formulate/test
typological hypotheses? Can they make valid cross-linguistic
generalisations?
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- *Additional topics include* constructed language generation, universals
in diachronic language change, information-theoretic approaches to
typology, and automated approaches to etymology.
*Important Dates (23:59 AoE)*
- *Direct submission deadline: December 19, 2025*
- *Pre-reviewed (ARR) submission deadline: January 2, 2026*
- *Notification of acceptance: January 23, 2026*
- *Camera-ready deadline: February 3, 2026*
- *Workshop date: During EACL 2026 (March 24–29, 2026; exact day TBA)*
*Submissions*
We invite extended *abstract submissions (non-archival) *and *general paper
submissions (archival)*. The accepted submissions will be presented at the
workshop, providing new insights and ideas. Extended abstracts should
describe already published work or work in progress and should *not exceed
two (2) pages*. This way, we will not discourage researchers from
preferring main conference proceedings, while ensuring that engaging and
thought-provoking research is presented at the workshop. For general
(archival) submissions, we accept both long and short papers. Short papers
should* not exceed four (4) pages, long papers should not exceed eight (8)
pages.* Unlimited additional pages are allowed for the references section
in all submission types.
*Submissions should be anonymous, without authors or an acknowledgement
section; self-citations should appear in third person.*
*Format: *
Submissions must follow the ACL 2025 stylesheet (
https://github.com/acl-org/acl-style-files), and both long and short paper
submissions must follow the two-column format of ACL proceedings. All
submissions must be in PDF format.
Submission Link:
https://openreview.net/group?id=eacl.org/EACL/2026/Workshop/SIGTYP
*SIGTYP 2026: *https://sigtyp.github.io/
*Organizing Committee*
Priya Rani, Michael Hahn, Andreas Shcherbakov, Oleg Serikov, Alexey
Sorokin, Ryan Cotterell and Kat Vylomova
*Anti-harassment policy*
The workshop follows the ACL anti-harassment policy:
https://www.aclweb.org/adminwiki/index.php?title=Anti-Harassment_Policy.
*Contact*
For any inquiries regarding the workshop, please send an email to the
Organising Committee at sigtyp(a)gmail.com
Regards,
Priya.
*** Fifth Call for Demos, DC and Tutorials ***
The 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent
Systems (AAMAS 2026)
May 25-29, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus
https://cyprusconferences.org/aamas2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
AAMAS 2026 received 1455 full paper submissions for the Main Track, after an initial
submission of 1800 abstracts. This is by far the highest number of submissions (around
50% more than the previous highest number) in the 25 years of AAMAS.
We still welcome submissions to the Demo Track, the DC Track as well as for tutorials.
The Demo Track allows participants from both academia and industry to showcase their
latest developments in agent-based and robotic systems.
The DC (Doctoral Consortium) is an opportunity to interact closely with established
researchers in your field as well as other PhD students to receive feedback on your work
and to get advice on managing your career.
Tutorials will be half-day long and will be in person — online/remote versions will not be
accepted. A few full-day tutorials may be considered, but the proponents need to motivate
their request when submitting their proposal.
More information about the above calls, along with their respective important dates, are
available on the AAMAS 2026 web site.
Organizing Committee
AAMAS 2026 General Chairs
• Viviana Mascardi, University of Genova, Italy
• John Thangarajah, RMIT University, Australia
AAMAS 2026 Program Chairs
• Chris Amato, Northeastern University, United States of America
• Louise Dennis, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
AAMAS 2026 Local Chairs
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Chair)
• Panayiotis Kolios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus (Vice Chair)
Dear colleagues,
The School of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University, Denmark invites applications for the position of either assistant professor, associate professor or full professor of cognitive science, based at the Department of Linguistics, Cognitive Science and Semiotics.
The assistant professorship is a full-time, three-year fixed-term position, and subject to appropriate funding, there will be an opportunity to apply for a subsequent associate professorship. The associate and full professorships are both full-time, tenured positions.
We are looking for an applicant who can strengthen our research profile in computational modelling of cognitive processes and/or computational modelling of social processes. The ideal applicant will contribute to the department’s collective research on cognitive and social processes and to the continued development of courses on mathematical and computational modelling of cognition within our BSc and MSc cognitive science programmes.
Please note that this can also include computational linguistics and natural language processing, particularly in applied contexts.
The deadline for applying is January 8th 2026. You can read the full job listing and apply here:
https://international.au.dk/about/profile/vacant-positions/job/assistant-pr…
—
Ross Deans Kristensen-McLachlan
Associate Professor, PhD
Department for Linguistics, Cognitive Science, and Semiotics
Aarhus University
We remind interested authors that *PROPOR 2026*, the17th International
Conference on Computational Processing of Portuguese Salvador - Bahia April
13th to 16th 2026
accepts submissions until *7 December 2025*.
See the website for more details: https://propor2026.ufba.br/#cfp
Larissa Freitas and Diana Santos, program chairs
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Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira
CISUC, Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra
http://eden.dei.uc.pt/~hroliv
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12th Workshop on the Challenges in the Management of Large Corpora (CMLC)
1st Call for Papers
The next meeting of CMLC will be held as part of the LREC-2026
conference <https://lrec2026.info/>in Palma, Mallorca.
See https://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/cmlc-2026.html
<https://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/cmlc-2026.html>for up-to-date information.
Workshop description
As in the previous CMLC meetings, we wish to explore common areas of
interest across a range of issues in language resource management,
corpus linguistics, natural language processing, natural language
generation, and data science.
Large textual datasets require careful design, collection, cleaning,
encoding, annotation, storage, retrieval, and curation to be of use for
a wide range of research questions and to users across a number of
disciplines. A growing number of national and other very large corpora
are being made available, many historical archives are being digitised,
numerous publishing houses are opening their textual assets for text
mining, and many billions of words can be quickly sourced from the web
and online social media.
A mixed blessing of the times is that much of those texts, in mono- and
multi-lingual arrangements can now be created automatically by
exploiting Large Language Models at various scales. That, on the one
hand, makes it possible to inflate the amounts of data where normally
data would be scarce: in under-resourced languages or language
varieties, in specific genres or for intricate and rarely attested
constructions. On the other hand, such procedures immediately raise
concerns regarding the authenticity and quality of such data, casting
doubt on the possibility of adequately (truthfully, verifiably,
reproducibly) addressing the kind of research questions that provoked
the rapid but tainted increase of the available data volumes in the
first place. Similar doubts may be directed at mass creation of
secondary and tertiary data ordinarily crucial for linguistic research:
apart from potential legal constraints on the use of the initial amounts
of human-created data, new questions arise as to the legal status of the
derived data, the ways to create e.g. provenance metadata of the derived
resources, and the level of trust regarding mass-produced grammatical
(and other) annotation layers.
These new as well as more traditional questions lie at the base of the
list of topics that management of large corpora (for any currently
suitable definition of “large”) invokes or at least strongly brushes
against.
Topics of interest
This year's event adds new items to the standard range of CMLC themes
and addresses some of LREC-2026 focus topics:
Interoperability and accessibility
• How to make corpora as accessible as possible
• Interoperable APIs for query and analysis software
• Provision of multiple levels of access for different tasks
Machine/Deep Learning
• Data preparation for machine learning input
• Creation, curation, maintenance and dissemination of language models
based on machine learning (e.g. word embeddings and entire deep learning
networks)
• Legal issues concerning language model distribution
Linguistic content challenges
• Dealing with the variety of language: multilinguality, minority and/or
underrepresented languages, historical texts, noisy OCR texts,
user-generated content, etc.
• Diversity and inclusion in language resources
• Integration of human computation (crowdsourcing) and automatic annotation
• Quality management of annotations
• Ensuring linguistic integrity of data through deduplication,
correction of typos and errors, removal of incomplete or malformed
sentences, and filtering harmful, offensive and toxic content, etc.
• Integrating different linguistic data types (text, audio, video,
facsimiles, experimental data, neuroimaging data, …)
Technical challenges
• Storage and retrieval solutions for large text corpora: primary data
(potentially including facsimiles, etc.), metadata, and annotation data
• Corpus versioning and release management
• Scalable and efficient NLP tooling for annotating and analysing large
datasets: distributed and GPGPU computing; using big data analysis
frameworks for language processing
• Dealing with streaming data (e.g. Social Media) and rapidly changing
corpora
• Environmental impact of big language data computing
• Engineering and management of research software
Exploitation challenges
• Legal and privacy issues
• Query languages, data models, and standardisation
• Licensing models of open and closed data, coping with intellectual
property restrictions
• Innovative approaches for aggregation and visualisation of text analytics
• Repurposing or extending application areas of existing corpora and tools
In the tradition of CMLC, we invite reports on national corpus
initiatives; submitters of these reports should be prepared to present a
poster.
Important dates
• Deadline for paper submission: 16.02.2026
• Notification of acceptance: 12.03.2026
• Deadline for the submission of camera-ready papers: 30.03.2026
• Meeting: details TBA
Paper submission
We invite anonymised extended abstracts for oral presentations on the
topics listed below, as PDF created according to LREC-2026 templates
<https://lrec2026.info/authors-kit/>.
CMLC has always reserved a track for national corpus project reports,
and to this end, we invite poster proposals of 500-750 words. National
project reports need not be anonymised.
Submissions are accepted solely through the START system (URL TBA).
A volume of proceedings will be published online by ELRA.
LRE 2026 Map and the "Share your LRs!" initiative
When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e.
also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used
for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your
research. Moreover, ELRA encourages all LREC authors to share the
described LRs (data, tools, services, etc.) to enable their reuse and
replicability of experiments (including evaluation ones).
Programme Committee
Names will be added as Programme Committee members confirm their
participation.
Organising Committee
• Piotr Bański (IDS Mannheim)
• Dawn Knight (Cardiff University)
• Marc Kupietz (IDS Mannheim)
• Andreas Witt (IDS Mannheim)
• Alina Wróblewska (ICS PAS, Warsaw)
Homepage
CMLC series homepage is located at
http://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/cmlc.html
<http://corpora.ids-mannheim.de/cmlc.html>
*
--
Dr. Piotr Bański
Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache,
R5 6-13
68-161 Mannheim, Germany
*** Last Call for Doctoral Consortium ***
The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026)
March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus
https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…>
The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the leading annual venue
for researchers and practitioners to explore advancements at the intersection of Artificial
Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
IUI 2026 attracted a record number of submissions for the main conference (561 full
paper submissions after an initial submission of 697 abstracts).
The IUI 2026 Doctoral Consortium (DC) provides students an opportunity to present their
research and receive feedback from a panel of mentors comprising senior researchers in
the field. We invite students who want to benefit from the guidance given by the
experienced mentors for planning the future steps in their research project. The ideal
participant is a doctoral student about two years from finishing their Ph.D. However, we
will also consider advanced Master students and junior Ph.D students provided their
research plan is sufficiently developed to benefit from the discussion at the DC.
The IUI Doctoral Consortium will provide students with an opportunity to:
• present and discuss the status of their research with experienced scholars in a
supportive, formative, and yet critical environment;
• explore and further develop their research ideas through constructive feedback
provided by the mentors and other DC students;
• network and build collaborations with other members of the community;
• discuss various professional aspects and career opportunities.
Submission and Participation
Submissions will be reviewed and selected by the DC committee and DC mentors. DC
candidates should have developed a clear topic and research approach and have made
some progress, but are not too far along in their research so that they can still reshape
their research topic or approach.
The final version of accepted Doctoral Consortium submissions will be included in the
IUI companion proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. DC participants are
expected to attend in person the Doctoral Consortium workshop that will take place as a
separate session during the conference (date to be announced). DC participants will also
have the opportunity to present their research in the poster session during the main
program.
Complimentary/reduced conference registration will be available for DC participants
under the precondition that they agree to assist as student volunteers in the organization
of the conference. They will also be given priority when applying for the student travel
awards (for details, see the Travel Funding page on the conference website).
Submission Instructions
If you are unsure about eligibility or submission requirements, please do not hesitate to
email us at dc2026(a)iui.acm.org!
To apply for the Doctoral Consortium, two steps are required:
• Please submit a single PDF containing your technical submission (for details see below)
via PCS by December 17, 2025.
• In addition, your doctoral or thesis advisor should send a separate, brief letter of
recommendation to the DC chairs at dc2026(a)iui.acm.org by December 17, 2025.
For the technical submission, please upload a single PDF containing the following four
items to https://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> .
1. Cover Letter (1 page max):
Please include your full name, contact details, affiliation, web page, expected graduation
date and target degree, the name of your thesis advisor, gender (optional), home country
(optional), and whether you are a member of an underrepresented minority group
(optional).
2. DC Submission (4 pages max including references):
A document describing your thesis/dissertation topic and research plan and your
progress thus far. Key points the submission should include:
• motivation for your dissertation research
• goal and research questions
• related work that frames your research
• methods/approach to reach the goal
• results, if any
• next steps for your research
3. Questions to mentors and co-students (1 page max):
List the main questions and discussion points regarding your thesis/dissertation topic
for which you expect to receive feedback from the Doctoral Consortium mentors/
participants.
4. Your CV (3 pages max):
Provide an academic curriculum vitae (CV) document.
How to Format and Submit
Prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates:
Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using
\documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template.
All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0
https://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> by the Doctoral Consortium deadline.
In PCS 2.0, first click "Submissions" at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for
society, conference, and track select "SIGCHI", "IUI 2026" and "IUI 2026 DC", respectively,
and press "Go".
Notifications and Possible SIGCHI Funding
Acceptance notifications will be sent by January 6, 2026.
Note that SIGCHI offers travel funding via the Gary Marsden Travel Awards.
The application deadline for this is Jan 9th. More information can be find at
https://iui.acm.org/2026/travel-funding/<http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/GPLists_2021/lm.php?tk=Y29ycG9yYQkJCWNvcnBv…> .
Important Dates
• Paper Submission: December 17, 2025
• Acceptance Notification: January 6, 2026
All dates are 23:59h AoE (anywhere on Earth).
Organisation
General Chairs
• Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel
• Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Local Organising Chair
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Doctoral Consortium Chairs
• Bart Knijnenburg, Clemson University, USA
• Osnat (Ossi) Mokryn, University of Haifa, Israel
• Martijn Willemsen, Eindhoven University of Technology & JADS, The Netherlands